Former Jeffco county administrator Jim Moore offered last week to testify in an ethics investigation of former commissioner Kevin McCasky, though the county apparently will not lift a confidentiality agreement and enable Moore to do so.

Moore, who recently settled his wrongful-termination lawsuit against the county for $175,000, said that, during his time working for Jeffco, he kept detailed notes about county activities that he considered questionable.

The second annual Give for Life event to benefit suicide awareness and prevention is set for July 23.

The benefit is in two parts: one is a motorcycle run and the other is an event at Cactus Jack’s in Evergreen. Proceeds go toward a new nonprofit started by Evergreen residents called the Start Talking Network.

Downtown Evergreen restaurant owner Susan Yeagley can now put up a banner advertising whatever she wants without fear of landing in court.

On June 28, the county commissioners voted to enact a six-month moratorium on enforcement of zoning rules prohibiting certain temporary signs.

A few months ago Yeagley, the owner of One World Cafe, started collecting signatures on a petition protesting the Jeffco zoning regulations that prohibit banner and roof signs. About 150 people signed it.

The Colorado Department of Transportation is replacing 12 signal poles and their bases on Evergreen Parkway from South Soda Creek Road to Highway 103 due to wear and tear.

Three intersections on Highway 74 are getting the upgrades: Bergen Parkway North at South Soda Creek Road; Squaw Pass Road (Highway 103); and Bergen Parkway. Other intersections will be done at a later date.

A group of Evergreen High School kids looking for a club project came up with the idea of turning the unsightly rock pile by the school's main entrance into a terrace garden full of plants, shrubs and statuary.

Step one involved rearranging about 10 tons of rocks to make room for green things that until now have never been given a chance. As of Tuesday, June 29, one could see the makings of a dry riverbed where white rocks had been laid on the slope.

Working in the kitchen is fun when you do it with friends, learn something new, soak up a little history and somebody else does the cleaning up, as in the new series of classes offered at the Humphrey Museum in Soda Creek.

Newly appointed museum director Angela Rayne, who has many skills, is offering classes in various aspects of homemaking for people interested in doing things the way they did them in the 1930s and ‘40s.

Things were less than peachy on Interstate 70 Monday afternoon, and it required a response from the fuzz.
Authorities were at the scene of an accident that closed the eastbound lanes of I-70 when a truck hauling peaches flipped onto its side near Lookout Mountain.
The Colorado Department of Transportation said the accident had traffic backed up all the way to Georgetown, and CDOT was recommending that motorists use U.S. 6 to get around the closure.

New fire restrictions have been issued for parts of unincorporated Jefferson County in an attempt to reduce human-caused wildfires.

Jeffco Sheriff Ted Mink issued stage 1 temporary fire restrictions effective July 1 for land west of Highway 93, C-470, Highway 121 and south of C-470, according to spokesman Mark Techmeyer. Violations are punishable by a fine up to $600.